I live for the rewrite. My process is to write like mad, letting everything fall onto the page. It marinates while I grab a cup of coffee. Then halleluiah, I get a do-over. Or two or three or however many it takes until I like it. It kinda makes me feel sorry for the brain surgeons.
What are your feelings about editing and rewriting?
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Jo Hawk The Writer
Title: Full Time
Source: Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
Word count: 160 words
This week’s photo prompt is provided by Michelle De Angelis. Thank you, Michelle!
It was a long, hot summer and Alysia had nearly finished. The thirty-three-foot Chris Craft needed a total overhaul. She purchased her in early spring and by St. Patrick’s Day had the boat gutted. The wooden hull was sound and didn’t need a lot of patching. She sanded, caulked, painted and varnished. She applied six coats of varnish herself. The engine, however, needed a complete overhaul.
Then she ran out of money. Alysia took a second job, sold her apartment and moved onto the boat. She slept on the deck in a sleeping bag under the stars. The boat owners in the surrounding slips noticed and monitored her progress. She often found gifts on the boat when she returned from work. When she questioned them, they laughed and denied her accusations.
The summer boaters winterized their boats as Alysia put the final touches on her full-time home. They threw a housewarming cookout and promised to be back in the spring.
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Jo Hawk The Writer
I ran across this cartoon and laughed. How many times have I changed a character’s name or the gender as I write? I know and then it changes. While not this drastic, my WIP needs an additional character and a dog.
Do you change up your character’s names, genders, delete them altogether, before you type “The End”?
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Jo Hawk The Writer
From Sonya’s 3LineTales at Only100Words.
You can find the original prompt here. Thank you, Sonya.
I feel each stab, each insult, each insignificant pinprick.
I paint my face, and they see what I want them to see, the reality that isn’t real.
Each night reveals the truth and I cry until at last I sleep.
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The image above is “The School of Athens” (Scuola di Athene) a fresco by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) which is part of the four Raphael Rooms (Stanze di Raffaello) in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
The four Raphael Rooms are the Sala di Costantino (“Hall of Constantine”), the Stanza di Eliodoro (“Room of Heliodorus”), the Stanza della Segnatura (“Room of the Signatura”) and the Stanza dell’Incendio del Borgo (“The Room of the Fire in the Borgo”).
The room Raphael began first was the Stanza della Segnatura, and “The School of Athens” was the third wall to be completed. Depicting Philosophy, “The School of Athens” is regarded as Raphael’s masterpiece.
Raphael was not specific on the identity of the philosophers and many speculated that he painted the faces of some of his contemporaries.
The philosophers (above) include Plato or Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle or Giuliano da Sangallo located in the center. The figure sprawled on the steps is identified as either Diogenes of Sinope or Socrates.
The man leaning on the cube is either Heraclitus or Michelangelo and the man to the left is either Parmenides or Nicomachus.
I have stood in front of this fresco several times now and contemplated many things. I have read and researched and digested opinions, theories, and speculations.
Pratechett is correct, thinking about how you think about things gives you a certainty, that influences everything you do. I have seen the certainty of my thoughts appear unbidden in my writing.
What things have you analyzed? How has it impacted your writing?
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Jo Hawk The Writer
I hope that today you can find some time to have some fun, whether it is reading or writing or something else.
Enjoy the day.
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Jo Hawk The Writer
I remember when I first read this quote, I thought “Yo! Yo-Yo, what’cha doin’ in my head?” Well, except for the music part. Don’t get me wrong, I love music and I love listening to him play. He really has a way of connecting with his listeners.
However, I want to explore “why people do what they do” through my writing. I really want to get into a character’s head and see the world from a different perspective, walk a mile in their shoes. I want to connect with the reader. And sometimes I listen to music as I write.
What do you want to accomplish with your writing?
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Jo Hawk The Writer
Title: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion
Source: FLASH FICTION FOR THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTITIONER- 2018 WEEK #41
Word count: 195 words
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Calder sprinted through the house, picked up his bag, grabbed his keys and headed for the door. Running late was his normal morning routine. He stepped onto the deck, locked the door and slung his bag over his shoulder before he saw them.
Puzzled, he looked around, searching for clues. They weren’t his, and he didn’t remember them when he came home last night. No, the deck had been empty. He remembered dropping his keys trying to get in and he certainly would have seen them. Why would someone leave a pair of shoes on his deck?
Calder looked around, searching for their owner. At the corner of the house, a green shirt waved from the lilac bush. Intrigued Calder walked over and pulled it loose. The shirt’s back bore a Grateful Dead logo proclaiming “The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion.”
Footprints in the dirt beneath the bush lead towards the pond. Calder followed and found a pair of jeans in the grass next to the path. A ribbon of gold glistened and glowed across the pond’s surface.
Calder absentmindedly dropped his bag, his keys slipped from his fingers and he waded into the water.
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The Month of Fear culminates with Halloween and heralds the start of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Fear seemed like a great topic.
Alan Greenspan’s words are revealing. Humans make financial decisions based on fear. Alan, being a number cruncher, has the data to prove it. Can we extrapolate this to other human behaviors? We work because we fear the negative consequences of not having a job and thus money.
Hmmm. Are our character’s motivations dictated by what they fear?
What does your main character fear? How does their fear influence their actions?
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Jo Hawk The Writer
Title: It
Source: 100 Word Wednesday: Week 92
Word count: 100 words
Photo by Alex Iby
Franny screamed.
In the eerie gloom Charles, Franny and Alex crowded the edge of the raft searching for Mickey beneath the waves.
“Stay back,” Charles jerked away from the edge pulling the girls with him.
“Somethings out there and its gonna kill us.”
Alex scowled at Charles. “You’re such a sissy, Charles, it’s only water,” she said.
Franny screamed again, pointing. Mickey’s hands had breached the waves. Franny reached for him, but Mickey was yanked downward and disappeared.
“I told you, its out there,” Charles said clinging to Franny.
“It’s not out there.” Alex gazed across the waves and smiled.
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Jo Hawk The Writer
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